Georgiana’s late husband Norman had the dream to re-create an 1880¹s logging railroad as tourist/historical attraction. He bought land in 1958, which had been Isaac Graham¹s. There may have been a saloon on the land, whence the name Roaring Camp. Clark laid track in the 1960¹s. Until 1976, the mountain train ran over an elaborate trestle system. The soaring trestle burned in an arson fire during the drought of 1976.

In 1996 a skeleton was found during routine brush clearing. There were found on the corpse: gold watch, glasses, fully loaded Colt revolver in the right hand, a ³pumpkin seed bottle² which had held morphine or Laudanum. A .44 bullet had shattered the lower left of rib cage. The dead person had been lying in wait for someone else, who appeared behind them, and got off the first, fatal shot. Inspection by anthropologists yielded a surprise: the person, as indicated by bone structure, was a woman.

Highway 9 was called Baldwin Street. The Felton end of the flume was where Roy¹s/New Leaf Market now stands. --Tour at Roaring Camp.

Photo No. 302L34 ©2000 Marc Shargel
Photographed at Felton, CA

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